we're here in this wonderful clinton library, and i want to bring this back, if i can. you know, there's more than 40 paces between the situation room and the oval office. rarely the security advisers get fired if things go wrong, but presidents do get thrown out of office if things go wrong, and i can assure you there was no more appetite for american boots on the group in 1995 than there is in 2013. we go through somalia, blackhawk down. we didn't have a great experience in haiti. there was no appetite in the country for putting 25,000 or 20,000 troops into bosnia, even in the context of peace agreements. most people couldn't tell you where bosnia was on the map. the -- inevitably the peace agreement would be shaky, and it was an extraordinarily courageous decision, i think, and we would not have had the peace. that was the center piece of the end game because once we said we will be there to enforce the peace, that was the key decision; then the parties had confidence that maybe a peace agreement actually could last. it comes down to presidential leadership here, and